Madden NFL 23

From ZLAN19 on the truetrophies page. I followed his guide and it worked for me within 30minutes.

""There are two conditions has to be fulfilled to unlock this trophy:
1. Ball carrier must be in a pile or 'standup tackle'
2. You must trigger a hit stick animation that leads to the fumble

While this trophy sounds like it is pure luck based, you can totally boost it by yourself with two controllers. Not only can you consistently run the ball for the second controller (p2), but you can also tell if the p2 is in a standup tackle situation by the break tackle prompt (the mini QTE where you have to tap X)

Difficulty and mode shouldn't matter. As a reference, I used Rookie and the Play Now mode.

Before you start you would want to change your slider (settings - player skill) to:
Rushing setting -
Run blocking: 0
Fumbles: 0
Rush Defense setting -
Tackling: 0
I also changed the opposing team WR/HB's ball carrying and stamina to 0. Increased hit power to 99 for the team I was using. Not very necessary, but should give that a try if you're struggling.
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So here are the steps:
-Two controllers (p1 & p2)
- Run a running play, and let your AI defender tackle the ball carrier.
-The prompt for the ball carrier to break tackle shows up (p2)
- Push up on the right stick to do the hit stick animation. (p1)

In my case, I let p2 run Jet Sweep.
I recommend the Nickel 3-3 Cover 1 Robber since there's a 50/50 chance for the LE to wrap the ball carrier immediately. If you know any other good plays, leave a comment for others :)""

Also as a side note the teams I used were Pittsburgh and Cleveland. I had Cleveland run a double reverse play and ran the nickel coverage with Pitt listed above. As the OLB wraps the receiver I simply hit up on the right stick with the FS or SS I was blitzing with to "user hit stick" the standup tackle. I personally didn't change any ratings for players before doing this.

PS this is my first time throwing up a guide if I need to change anything let me know thanks!

Just unlocked as of 7/29/2023, still working.

This was the last achievement I needed to 100% the game, very surprised I did not unlock this prior to the others.

After 3 days with about 2 hrs each day of play time, actively attempting/farming the achievement, I got it to pop.

S/O RetiredYG30 and ZLAN19 via TrueTrophies and others for their guides and tips.

I have included a video that showcases the play that the achievement popped for me below:



I farmed this achievement using the two controller method as the other guides have mentioned.

Game settings:

15. Min. QTRs

Game Mode: Arcade

Rookie Difficulty(both teams)
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*In Game Settings
Same as RetiredYG30 and ZLAN19 guides but I will repost here again:

Rushing settings:

Run Blocking: 0
Fumbling: 0

Rush Defense setting:

Tackling: 0

NOTE: I set these settings for both the CPU and Players sliders.

Teams:

The teams you use are completely up to you, what helps is if you edit the two teams roster ratings. I used steelers on defense, giants on offense, doing the two controller method. (Main account uses defense, so steelers in this instance)

Steelers(Defense): Change the "Hit Power" rating of all defenders to 99 **This will pretty much guarantee any hitstick results in a fumble.

Giants(Offense): Change the ball carrying rating of everyone(Or of players who will touch the ball depending on what play you call) to 0.

Change the run blocking rating down 0 as well

*For me I only turned down the ball carry ratings/ Run block of all the WR and TE because the end around play only really involves those two positions. Don't worry about editing other positions' ratings.

Play Calling:

Using the steelers on my main controller, I would sit in a 3-4 odd defense formation, running cover 4 contain(or cover 4 drop) using the steelers defensive playbook. I would click on to the OLB once the play started, would press to initiate the tackle battle mini game, would then click off using which would put on the next closest pursuing defender and I would run in and hit stick "flicking up the right joystick" and if timed correctly will result in a forced fumble. I found that this play vs the end around got my defenders into space early in order to gang tackle the ball carrier, with out loosing outside contain.

For the Giants using my other controller, I would run End Around Lead, you can find this play in the singleback bunch ace formation, more specifically in the west coast playbook(also available in various other playbooks). All I did on offense was press with my second controller to snap the ball and then the cpu would do the rest.

TIPS:

-I would hold using my second controller (the giants) to make this process faster by running in a hurry offense, which definitely speeds up this process by elimating the huddle animations.

-Turn off playclock in the game settings, will get annoying after awhile of not snapping the ball in time so just elimate it if you keep getting delay of game penalties.

-In the instance where the giants get stopped on 4th down, I would immediately call a Field Goal attempt on offense for the steelers and would purposely miss the kick in order to change possession back to the giants to effectively farm this achievement.

I think the animation might be very specific(could be entirely wrong on this part), I think it has to be a lunging hitstick that directly pops the ball out, while simultaneously having the ball carrier locked up in a tackle battle with another defender.

Overall basically RnG on what animation you get imo. This could pop for you after a few succesful attempts, or end up like myself and taking quite some time lol.

Definitely still obtainable/not bugged, just very hit or miss and is a poorly coded achievement with super specific unlock requirements via animation.

Thank you all!